A Different Perspective

Comparing the concepts of Physics to the designs of different buildings is what really drives me to think of the purpose of the Architect to place those bricks in that particular way. Both perspectives depart from different lands of thought but sail into the same harbor. Two of these analogies that I want to put forward are that of the Alphabetic Tower in Batumi, Georgia and Shanghai World Financial Tower.

1) Alphabetic Tower in Batumi, Georgia: Batumi created a landmark that symbolized the journey of the Georgian people, not only in terms of modern history but also throughout time as members of the human race. Its structure, information, and interactions form the language through which life grows and develops by taking the concept of DNA into consideration which is the alphabet of humanity.

Alphabetic Tower in Batumi, Georgia

To me, it seemed like the concept I had studied in 11th Standard-the passage of the sound waves in an organ pipe. Where people are the visual and auditory stimuli which are very different in terms of composition (diversity), but share similar characteristics (anatomy) taking the nodes as the ‘anatomy’ and the anti-nodes as the ‘diversity’ into consideration.


Sound Waves in an Organ Pipe



2) Shanghai World Financial Tower: The original design specified a circular aperture to refer to the Chinese mythological depiction of the sky as a circle. It resembled the Chinese moon gate too. However, the initial design faced protests due to which Pedersen then suggested that a bridge be placed at the bottom of the aperture to make it less circular.


Shanghai World Financial Tower 

A beam of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (Gamma Radiation) emitted from an unstable atomic nucleus blew my mind when I tried to support the reason for it being the tallest. Gamma-rays are not deflected by electric and magnetic fields which ultimately results in not letting the tower stretch itself in either of the two dimensions and forcing it to stretch itself straight up into the third dimension.

Gamma Radiation 

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